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FROM: "Quillen, Christine" <[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 2/4/02, 6:00 PM

I put up a display of unusual love stories using an old list from Fiction-L,
but I'm finding that the books are going quite quickly and wondered if
anyone had any more suggestions. I've already added the following titles:

Never Change - Elizabeth Berg
Trans-sister Radio - Chris Bohjalian
Time and time again - Dennis Danvers
The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff
Beauty - Susan Wilson
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Emminence - Morris West
Smithsonian Institution - Gore Vidal
Honeymoon - Amy Jenkins
What dreams may come - Richard Matheson

I'll compile a list.

C. L. Quillen, Librarian
South County Regional Branch Library
35 Coopers Folly Road
Atco, New Jersey 08004

FROM: Melissa Norton <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/4/02, 7:14 PM

A CRACK IN FOREVER by Jeannie Brewer

Melissa
--- "Quillen, Christine" <[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us>
wrote:
> I put up a display of unusual love stories using an
> old list from Fiction-L,
> but I'm finding that the books are going quite
> quickly and wondered if
> anyone had any more suggestions. I've already added
> the following titles:
>
> Never Change - Elizabeth Berg
> Trans-sister Radio - Chris Bohjalian
> Time and time again - Dennis Danvers
> The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff
> Beauty - Susan Wilson
> Stardust - Neil Gaiman
> Emminence - Morris West
> Smithsonian Institution - Gore Vidal
> Honeymoon - Amy Jenkins
> What dreams may come - Richard Matheson
>
> I'll compile a list.
>
> C. L. Quillen, Librarian
> South County Regional Branch Library
> 35 Coopers Folly Road
> Atco, New Jersey 08004
>
>
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FROM: "Madeline Guzman" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/4/02, 10:16 PM

The Woman and the Ape -- Peter Hoeg
Enduring Love -- Ian McEwan
Sputnik Sweetheart -- Haruki Murakami
The Reader -- Bernhard Schlink
The Loves of Judith --Meir Shalev


Madeline
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Montgomery County, Maryland

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FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/4/02, 10:48 PM

Ali & Nino by Kurban Said
Be My Knife by David Grossman
Griffin & Sabine (any of the trilogy) or The Gryphon by Nick Bantock
Julie & Romeo by Jeanne Ray
La Cucina by Lily Prior
The Mark of the Angel by Nancy Huston
Me Times Three by Alex Witchel
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Night of the Avenging Blowfish by John Welter
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (and the rest of the series)
Shopgirl by Steve Martin


Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System

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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/5/02, 12:46 AM

Christine -

Here are some titles I'd suggest for your display -

Robin McKinley - Beauty
Beauty & the Beast

Charlotte Vale Allen - Night Magic
Beauty & the Beast meets Phantom of the Opera

Ellswyth Thane
Tryst

Paul Gallico
Too Many Ghosts (A lovely ghost story; a ghostly love story)
The Snow Goose

Patricia Gaffne
Wild at Heart
Daughter of scientist falls in love with her father's subject - a "wild"
man who was raised by wolves. The author's empathy with things animal and
human imbue the story with a rare poignancy - and humanity.

Myers, Helen R.
Once Upon a Full Moon
Scion of wealthy family runs down street urchin, only to discover that
the victim is injured, nearly illiterate - and female. He decides to play
Pygmalion/Henry Higgins in this My Fair Lady for the '90's.

J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts)
Her futuristic "In Death" cop series, co-starring cop Eve Dallas and
the fascinating Roarke.

Of course - there are many other unusual love stories. I have an 18+ page
list of them, if you're interested. You can reply to me off list.

Hope your readers enjoy the display.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 7:21 AM

>From: "Quillen, Christine" <[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Unusual love stories
>Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:56:06 -0500
>
>I put up a display of unusual love stories using an old list from
>Fiction-L,
>but I'm finding that the books are going quite quickly and wondered if
>anyone had any more suggestions. I've already added the following titles:
>
>>Beauty - Susan Wilson
>


Robin McKinley's version, also titled "Beauty," might fit.

C. J. Cherryh's Morgaine Saga ("Gate of Ivrel," "Well of Shiuan," "Fires of
Azeroth," "Exile's Gate") includes a hint of love from oathman Vanye to
Morgaine.

If romantic love isn't the only option, try "Lonesome Traveller" by Weldon
Hill, in which a young boy's love of his mother, in a New Mexico sanitorium
"with spots on her lungs," impels him to journey to see her from his home in
NE Oklahoma, accompanied only by his dog and burro. Hill's "The Long Summer
of George Adams," about a 1950's railroad worker and the odd way he drifts
into an affair, could also be used.

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FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@brighton.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 7:42 AM

"The woman and the ape" by Peter Hoeg.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 8:24 AM

The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill

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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Karen A.K. Keller wrote:

> "The woman and the ape" by Peter Hoeg.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
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FROM: Sue Johnson <[removed]@ccl.charleston.lib.sc.us>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 8:46 AM

Waiting by Ha Jin

At 06:56 PM 2/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I put up a display of unusual love stories using an old list from Fiction-L,
>but I'm finding that the books are going quite quickly and wondered if
>anyone had any more suggestions. I've already added the following titles:
>
>Never Change - Elizabeth Berg
>Trans-sister Radio - Chris Bohjalian
>Time and time again - Dennis Danvers
>The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff
>Beauty - Susan Wilson
>Stardust - Neil Gaiman
>Emminence - Morris West
>Smithsonian Institution - Gore Vidal
>Honeymoon - Amy Jenkins
>What dreams may come - Richard Matheson
>
>I'll compile a list.
>
>C. L. Quillen, Librarian
>South County Regional Branch Library
>35 Coopers Folly Road
>Atco, New Jersey 08004
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 8:46 AM

>From: [removed]@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Unusual Love Stories
>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 01:33:55 EST
>
>Christine -
>
>Here are some titles I'd suggest for your display -
>
>
>Charlotte Vale Allen - Night Magic
> Beauty & the Beast meets Phantom of the Opera
>
>

There are several other retellings of the "Phantom" story. "The Canary
Trainer," by Nicholas Meyer, looks at it through the eyes of a wandering
Sherlock Holmes. Then, of course, there's the original by Gaston Leroux.

You might also consider some of the retellings of classic fairy tales that
have come into being in the past few years. Most are romances.

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FROM: Rhonda Jessup <[removed]@whitbylibrary.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 8:57 AM

Bloodsucking fiends: a love story by Christopher Moore.

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FROM: Cathy Reid <[removed]@ccpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 10:00 AM

I don't believe I've seen anyone mention "Giant's House" by Elizabeth
McCracken.

Cathy Reid
Clark County Public Library
Springfield, OH

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/5/02, 12:26 PM

Christine -

A few more for your list:

Tanith Lee.
The Silver Metal Lover
SF. Woman falls in love with robot, which is considered non-PC in her
universe.

Catherine Asaro
The Quantum Rose
SF romance/Beauty and the Beast

Ruth Glick writing as Rebecca York
Nowhere Man
Harlequin Intrigue with a smattering of the paranormal. Behaviorial
scientist is hired to teach manners to a clone.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/5/02, 2:22 PM

The Last Time They Met
by Anita Shreve


Jennifer McQueen
Pre-Profession Librarian, Reference
Mt. Pleasant Regional Library
Mt. Pleasant, SC
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FROM: Ellen Olson <[removed]@rockford.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 2:43 PM

As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem

Ellen Olson

Rockford Public Library

Rockford Illinois

-----Original Message-----
From: Quillen, Christine [[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:56 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Unusual love stories


I put up a display of unusual love stories using an old list from Fiction-L,

but I'm finding that the books are going quite quickly and wondered if

anyone had any more suggestions. I've already added the following titles:

Never Change - Elizabeth Berg

Trans-sister Radio - Chris Bohjalian

Time and time again - Dennis Danvers

The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff

Beauty - Susan Wilson

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

Emminence - Morris West

Smithsonian Institution - Gore Vidal

Honeymoon - Amy Jenkins

What dreams may come - Richard Matheson

I'll compile a list.

C. L. Quillen, Librarian

South County Regional Branch Library

35 Coopers Folly Road

Atco, New Jersey 08004

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FROM: "Leila Dooley" <[removed]@ci.carlsbad.ca.us>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 2:54 PM

One title I have not seen listed yet is Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls. In it a neglected housewife falls in love with the green monster who finds her way into her kitchen one day. It's been years since I read it, but do remember it as very strange, but quite good.

Leila Dooley
Carlsbad (CA) City Library
[removed]@ci.carlsbad.ca.us

FROM: Maria Velazquez <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 3:15 PM

> I put up a display of unusual love stories using an
> old list from Fiction-L, but I'm finding that the
> books are going quite quickly and wondered if
> >anyone had any more suggestions. I've already added
> the following titles:
>
> Never Change - Elizabeth Berg
> Trans-sister Radio - Chris Bohjalian
> Time and time again - Dennis Danvers
> The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff
> Beauty - Susan Wilson
> Stardust - Neil Gaiman
> Emminence - Morris West
> Smithsonian Institution - Gore Vidal
> Honeymoon - Amy Jenkins
> What dreams may come - Richard Matheson

I suggest:
THE COWBOY AND THE VAMPIRE: A VERY UNUSUAL ROMANCE by
by Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall

Maria D. Velazquez

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FROM: Sandy Westbrook <[removed]@crlc.org>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 3:46 PM

At 06:56 PM 2/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I put up a display of unusual love stories using an old list from Fiction-L,
>but I'm finding that the books are going quite quickly and wondered if
>anyone had any more suggestions.
>
I suggest:
Something's Wrong with Your Scale! by Van Whitfield - a funny novel
about two people who meet and fall in love at a weight loss center.
Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey - another retelling of the Beauty and the
Beast story
The Bride Finder by Susan Carroll - an interesting tale of a family
whose men can only marry the woman found for them by their bride "finder".
She does have others in the series as well.

Sandy Westbrook
South Windsor Public Library
South Windsor, CT 06074
Ph 860-644-1541
Fax 860-644-7645
e-mail [removed]@crlc.org

FROM: [removed]@lib.state.ca.us
REC'D: 2/5/02, 3:58 PM

2 of my favorite books of 2001:

The Man Who Ate a 747, by Ben Sherwood

and

Observatory Mansions, by Edward Carey

Brent

Brent Miller
Government Publications Section
654-0243

FROM: Cathy Reid <[removed]@ccpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 4:30 PM

I just thought of another one:

SECOND NATURE, by Alice Hoffman--a suburban woman falls in love with a man who
was raised by wolves.

Cathy Reid
Clark County Public Library
Springfield, OH

FROM: "Bonnie Symons" <[removed]@cobourg.library.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 4:52 PM

Alice Hoffman writes great unusual love stories. Her earliest is
Illumination Night. Turtle moon is good and Practical Magic.

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 5:44 PM

In the country of the young by Lisa Carey

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FROM: "KERRY HUTCHEON" <[removed]@fvrl.bc.ca>
REC'D: 2/5/02, 6:49 PM

A new book I just read by Dara Joy "Ritual of Proof" is very unusual. Set on
another world, in a regency-style society, but where the women are the property
owners, and run the society, and the men are put on the marriage mart.

Kerry Hutcheon
Fraser Valley Regional Library

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 7:40 AM

How about Patricia Wrede's "Enchanted Forest Chronicles"? Instead of
waiting to be courted by a proper prince, a rebellious princess runs away to
live with the dragons.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 8:02 AM

"The Black Swan" and "The Fire Rose," by Mercedes Lackey: retellings of
classic fairy tales.

And, if you want to be a little risque, "Patience and Sarah," by Isabel (I
think) Miller. Two 19th-C. New England women discover mutual love.

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FROM: "Jodi Felde" <[removed]@ncats.net>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 9:26 AM

X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam.

Nice by Jen Sacks
Love blossoms between a female serial killer and a hitman!

Jodi Felde
Reference Staff
Fremont Area District Library
Fremont, MI

FROM: Barb Borg-Jenkins <[removed]@pcpls.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 11:00 AM

This one is intertwined with "The Weight of Water", but it is best to read
"The Last Time They Met" first.

Barbara Borg-Jenkins
South Haven Public Librayr
403 W 700 N
Valparaiso, IN 46385

[removed]@aol.com wrote:

> The Last Time They Met
> by Anita Shreve
>
> Jennifer McQueen
> Pre-Profession Librarian, Reference
> Mt. Pleasant Regional Library
> Mt. Pleasant, SC
> [removed]@aol.com
>
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FROM: "Gayle Richardson" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 1:20 PM

Two I would suggest that I don't think I've seen on the list:
Alpert, Cathryn ROCKET CITY
Sullivan, Faith MRS. DEMING AND THE MYTHICAL BEAST
Gayle Richardson/Seattle Public

>>> [removed]@yahoo.com 02/05/02 12:48PM >>>

> I put up a display of unusual love stories using an
> old list from Fiction-L, but I'm finding that the
> books are going quite quickly and wondered if
> >anyone had any more suggestions. I've already added
> the following titles:
>
> Never Change - Elizabeth Berg
> Trans-sister Radio - Chris Bohjalian
> Time and time again - Dennis Danvers
> The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff
> Beauty - Susan Wilson
> Stardust - Neil Gaiman
> Emminence - Morris West
> Smithsonian Institution - Gore Vidal
> Honeymoon - Amy Jenkins
> What dreams may come - Richard Matheson

I suggest:
THE COWBOY AND THE VAMPIRE: A VERY UNUSUAL ROMANCE by
by Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall

Maria D. Velazquez

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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/6/02, 1:31 PM

Also by Ellswyth Thane: Queen's Folly. It takes place over 400+ years. The
subsequent heroes tend to divide their loyalties between their wives - and
the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I that hangs on the wall of their manse. And
woe betide anyone who disturbs the portrait - disaster ensues!

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 7:39 AM

Two that are in my personal collection:

"Sarah Hall's Sea God," by Dubois(?) (the book's inaccessible just now)
and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," of course!

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 7:49 AM

>From: [removed]@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Unusual Love Stories
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:16:17 EST
>
>Also by Ellswyth Thane: Queen's Folly.

Did anyone mention her "Tryst" yet?

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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/7/02, 9:48 AM

In response to Christine Jefford's Q - yes, somebody mentioned Tryst - moi!
As soon as the Q was originally posted. It's one of my absolute favorites.
And speaking of ghosts - there's also Rita Clay Estrada's ground breaking
Harlequin Temptation, The Ivory Key. And Billie Green wrote A Special Man,
in which the hero is ostensibly retarded, but love prevails anyway. (In
reality, he's been drugged by the villains.)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 10:42 AM

I've really been enjoying this thread so much so that I have decided to
do a also do a display of this fiction. I feel a bit guilty "stealing"
the idea but it's such a great one for this time of the year.

Thought of another

If only it were true by Marc Levy
Lauren, a young, beautiful medical student ends up in a coma after a car
crash. Several months later, Arthur, an architect, opens the closet of
his new apartment and finds Lauren in it. Both are surprised to say the
least. Arthur finds himself falling in love with this "ghost" of sorts.
This is a beautifully told, different love story.


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Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
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FROM: "Reference Desk" <[removed]@hudson.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 11:13 AM

I don't think anyone has mentioned this one.
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause - YA novel - teen girl and teen boy "with a secret". He's a vampire.

Monica Knooihuizen
Hudson Library & Historical Society

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/7/02, 12:07 PM

If anyone wants to add videotapes to their display of titles, you might want
to include:

Return to Me (where the hero falls in love with the woman who has the
transplanted heart of his late wife)

The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Where the veterinarian heroine asks her friend
to "Cyrano" for her)

And speaking of Cyrano - that's a rather unusual love story, in itself.

Love this thread!

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 12:18 PM

Carol wrote:
"I've really been enjoying this thread so much so that I have decided to
do a also do a display of this fiction."
Well, that sentence really came out garbled, didn't it? Hopefully, you all
knew what I meant and chalked it up to my excitement about the display! The
hands type faster than the brain can think.

Carol

Carol Kubala wrote:

> I've really been enjoying this thread so much so that I have decided to
> do a also do a display of this fiction. I feel a bit guilty "stealing"
> the idea but it's such a great one for this time of the year.
>
> Thought of another
>
> If only it were true by Marc Levy
> Lauren, a young, beautiful medical student ends up in a coma after a car
> crash. Several months later, Arthur, an architect, opens the closet of
> his new apartment and finds Lauren in it. Both are surprised to say the
> least. Arthur finds himself falling in love with this "ghost" of sorts.
> This is a beautifully told, different love story.
>
> --
> Carol Kubala
> Adult Services Librarian
> Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
> Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569
>
> ......................................................................
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> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

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Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
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FROM: Lisa DavisCraig <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 4:40 PM

Has anyone mentioned Tea with a black dragon by R.A. MacAvoy? I just
read this after a reccomendation off of AARList. A woman and a
dragon (although he is currently in human form) fall in love.

Lisa D-C, [removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us

FROM: Sandra <[removed]@cox.net>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 8:45 PM

How about Tim by Colleen McCullough? Older woman/ young man who
is mentally challenged. Also a movie with a very young Mel Gibson.

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/8/02, 12:30 AM

Back to the movies - A most unusual love story is Ladyhawke - she's a hawk by
day; he's a knight. He's a wolf by night; she's the fair maiden. It's not
based on a book, but it sure is an unusual love story.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/8/02, 7:01 AM

>From: [removed]@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Unusual Love Stories
>Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:37:20 EST
>
>If anyone wants to add videotapes to their display of titles, you might
>want
>to include:
>
>Return to Me (where the hero falls in love with the woman who has the
>transplanted heart of his late wife)
>
>The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Where the veterinarian heroine asks her
>friend
>to "Cyrano" for her)
>
>And speaking of Cyrano - that's a rather unusual love story, in itself.
>
>

Filmed versions of any of the books we've discussed (like "same Time Next
Year" and "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir") would fit in. So might "When Harry Met
Sally...," "Pretty Woman," "Runaway Bride," and "He Said, She Said."

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/8/02, 12:23 PM

At 01:24 AM 2/8/02 EST, you wrote:
>Back to the movies - A most unusual love story is Ladyhawke - she's a hawk
by
>day; he's a knight. He's a wolf by night; she's the fair maiden. It's not
>based on a book, but it sure is an unusual love story.
>
>Binnie Syril Braunstein
>romance novelist/former librarian

LADYHAWKE was not based on a book, but a paperback novelization of it
by Joan D. Vinge was published in 1985.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/8/02, 2:08 PM

Dennis -

Thanks so much for the information about the Ladyhake novelization by Joan D.
Vinge.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Celeste Choate <[removed]@cmpl.org>
REC'D: 2/9/02, 4:02 PM

Here are a couple more:

A Fine and Private Place by Peter Beagle
a ghost story and a love story

Just Ella by Margaret Haddix
Cinderella rejects the prince and finds her own way and own love.

Celeste Choate
Clinton-Macomb Public Library
Clinton Township, MI

FROM: "Quillen, Christine" <[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 2:08 PM

Allen, Charlote Vale Night Magic
Alpert, Cathryn Rocket City
Asaro, Catherine The quantum rose
Bantock, Nick The Gryphon
Bantock, Nick Griffin & Sabine
Beagle, Peter A fine and private place
Benitez, Rafael Soledad's Adventurous Childhood
Berg, Elizabeth Never change
Bohjalian, Chris Trans-sister Radio
Bowden, Susan Sisters at heart
Brewer, Jeannie Crack in Forever
Byatt, A. S. Possession
Cannell, Dorothy How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams
Capote, Truman Breakfast at Tiffany's
Card, Orson Scott Enchantment
Carey, Edward Observatory mansions
Carey, Lisa In the country of the young
Carmichael, Emily Finding Mr. Right
Carroll, Jonathan Marriage of sticks
Carroll, Susan The Bride finder
Cherryh, C. J. Morgaine Saga
Danvers, Denis Time and time again
Danvers, Dennis Wilderness
Denham, Alice Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Dubois? Sarah Hall's sea god
Ebershoff, David Danish Girl
Ellison, Harlan Boy and His Dog
Engel, Marian Bear
Esquivel, Laura Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura Swift as desire
Estrada, Rita Clay Ivory key
Feehan, Christine Dark Fire
Finnamore, Suzanne Otherwise Engaged
Gabaldon, Diana Outlander
Gaffney, Patricia Wild at heart
Gaiman, Neil Stardust
Gallico, Paul Jennie
Gallico, Paul Too many ghosts
Gallico, Paul The snow goose
Gavin, Neal Threads
Gibson, Rachel Simply irresistible
Gilson, Chris Crazy for Cornelia
Gould, Judith Time to say good-bye
Graham, Janice Sarah's window
Grayson, Emily The gazebo
Green, Billie A special man
Greenberg, Joanne Of Such Small Differences
Grossman, David Be My Knife
Haddix Just Ella
Hamilton, Diana Unexpected baby
Hays, Clark The Cowboy and the Vampire
Heyer, Georgette Sprig Muslin
Higgins, Colin Harold and Maude
Hill, Weldon Long summer of George Adams
Hill, Weldon Lonesome traveler
Hoeg, Peter Woman and the Ape
Hoffman, Alice Second Nature
Hoffman, Alice Here on earth
Hoffman, Alice Practical magic
Hoffman, Alice Turtle moon
Hugo, Victor Toilers of the Sea
Huston, Nancy The Mark of the Angel
Ingalls, Rachel Mrs. Caliban
Japrisott, Sebastien A Very Long Engagement
Jenkins, Amy Honeymoon
Jin, Ha Waiting
Jones, Allen Morris Last Year's River
Joy, Dara Ritual of Proof
Katz, Judith Escape artist
Kay, Susan Phantom
King, Tabitha One on One
Kinsale, Laura Shadow and the star
Klause, Annette Curtis The silver kiss
Kliment, Alexander Living Parallel
Kotzwinkle, William The Bear Went Over the Mountain
Kurban Said Ali & Nino
Lackey, Mercedes Black Swan
Lackey, Mercedes The fire rose
Lane, James Redeeming Factors
Lawrence, Terry Before I woke
Lee, Tanith Silver Metal Lover
Leroux, Gaston Phantom of the opera
Lethem, Jonathan As she climbed across the table
Levy, Marc If only it were true
Libera, Antoni Madame
Logue, Antonia Shadow-Box
Lovell, Mary S. A Rage to Live
MacAvoy, R. A. Tea with a black dragon
Mark, Jan Zeno was here
Markus, Julia Dared and Done
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Love in the Time of Cholera
Martin, Steve Shopgirl
Matheson, Richard What Dreams may come
McCracken, Elizabeth Giant's House
McCrumb, Sharyn If I'd Killed Him When I met Him
McCullough, Colleen Tim
McEwan, Ian Enduring Love
McGraw, Eloise Mara, Daughter of the Nile
McKinley, Robin Beauty
Meade, Marion Stealing Heaven
Meyer, Nicholas The canary trainer
Miller, Linda Lael Daniel's bride
Moore, Christopher Bloodsucking Fiends
Murakami, Haruki Sputnik Sweetheart
Myers, Helen R. Once upon a full moon
Nader, George Chrome
Orzeki, Ruth My Year of Meats
Piercy, Marge High cost of living
Prior, Lily La Cucina
Ray, Jeanne Julie & Romeo
Robb, J. D. "In death" series
Roberts, Ann Victoria Morning's gate
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Sacks, Jen Nice
Schlink, Bernard The Reader
Scollins-Mantha, Brandi My intended
Shalev, Meir The Loves of Judith
Sheepshanks, Mary Picking up the pieces
Sherrill, Steven The minotaur takes a cigarette break
Sherwood, Ben Man who ate a 747
Shreve, Anita Weight of Water
Shreve, Anita Last time they met
Shute, Nevil Pied Piper
Singer, Isaac B. Shosha
Slade, Bernard Same time, next year (play)
Sparks, Nicholas The notebook
Steel, Danielle Klone and I
Sullivan, Faith Mrs. Deming and the mythical beast
Swann, E.S. Night Gardening
Thane, Ellswyth Tryst
Thane, Ellswyth Queen's Folly
Vidal, Gore Smithsonian Institution
Vinge, Joan D. Ladyhawke
Webb, Charles The Graduate
Webster, Jean Daddy Long Legs
Welter, John Night of the Avenging Blowfish
West, Morris Emminence
Wharton, William Last Lovers
Whitfield, Van Something's wrong with your scale
Wilson, Susan Beauty
Witchel, Alex Me Times Three
Witlinger, Ellen Hard Love
Wrede, Patricia Enchanted Forest series
Yan, Geiling Lost Daughter of Happiness
York, Rebecca Nowhere man

Movie Return to me
Movie The truth about cats and dogs
Movie Same time next year
Movie The ghost & Mrs. Muir
Movie When Harry met Sally
Movie Pretty Woman
Movie Runaway Bride
Movie He said, she said

FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 2/24/02, 3:01 PM

James Branch Cabell's "The Cream of the Jest" would certainly qualify as
an unusual love story. The female love interest may be just a figment of
the protagonist's imagination ... but then again, he might be a figment
of hers, too. Other Cabell books might fit this query, too. ("The Music
from Behind the Moon", etc.).

In David Garnett's "Lady into Fox", the loving wife of a very proper
English country squire is suddenly and inexplicably changed into a
four-footed, furry beast. This puts a strain on their marriage.

I second whoever mentioned Griffin and Sabine, Neil Gaiman's "Stardust",
Peter Beagle's "A Fine and Private Place", and Steven Sherill's "The
Minotaur takes a Cigarette Break." Did anyone mention Dunsany's "The
King of Elfland's Daughter"? Or Beagle's "Lila the Werewolf"?

Laurell K. Hamilton's "vampire hunter" Anita Blake has highly unusual
(and frequently steamy) love affairs with vampires, werewolves, etc.,
throughout the series that features her. (I'm going by reviews on this
one, since I haven't read the books.)

Finally, a patron request for Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's "Venus in Furs"
earlier this week reminded me that there's a whole subgenre of literature
dealing with "unusual" sexual practices, although I'm not sure that this
is what you intended with your query. Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty"
books, Laura Reese, the "Story of O", etc. Whether these are suitable
for your display is up to you!

Bradley A. Scott

"Hail and farewell, Ettarre!"
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/25/02, 8:22 AM

>From: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Unusual Love Stories
>Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:05:13 -0500
>
>In David Garnett's "Lady into Fox", the loving wife of a very proper
>English country squire is suddenly and inexplicably changed into a
>four-footed, furry beast. This puts a strain on their marriage.
>
>I second whoever mentioned Griffin and Sabine, Neil Gaiman's "Stardust",
>Peter Beagle's "A Fine and Private Place", and Steven Sherill's "The
>Minotaur takes a Cigarette Break." Did anyone mention Dunsany's "The
>King of Elfland's Daughter"? Or Beagle's "Lila the Werewolf"?
>
>Laurell K. Hamilton's "vampire hunter" Anita Blake has highly unusual
>(and frequently steamy) love affairs with vampires, werewolves, etc.,
>throughout the series that features her. (I'm going by reviews on this
>one, since I haven't read the books.)
>


Thomas Burnett Swann's fantasies might fit here, too. They feature
mythological creatures--centaurs, Minotaurs, nymphs, etc.

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